That’s about the size of Thoreau’s cabin outside of Concord, MA. There is a reproduction if you’re in the area, or you can do a google image search and get a bunch of photo’s of the interior.
I went to a couple of home-plan sites. It seems to me 400 square feet is sort of the minimum needed for a house. With that you get a real bathroom, a bedroom and an efficiency kitchen/living room. At 400 square feet, the plans include space for a washer/dryer. Thinking it over, having that seems very important.
I keep thinking of Bruce Willis’ character in “The 5th Element.” He had a pretty small apartment. I don’t know how close it was to 150 sq ft, but it helps me picture a human living in a small space.
Here’s Michael Wolf’s 100 x 100: a hundred photos of 100 square foot apartments in a Hong Kong housing project.
Make sure you watch that well known documentary before moving into a tiny house.
They dont make the one house of theirs I actually liked any more - it was the sort of modern one, bedroom was one end, bathroom was the other and the middle was the kitchen/livingroom/everything else room. I think it was one of their larger designs.
Every time I go to Ikea, I like to check out the display rooms they use to feature lines of various furnished living spaces. They look pretty complete, and some of them are really small. I don’t think 150 square feet, but pretty damn small. I don’t remember his name, and right now I’m too lazy to look it up, but a few months back, a comedian lived a month in one of them.
Another thing I’m too lazy to look up, there was a thread here a few months back about an apartment in Japan that was insanely small.
Hey, Paul in Saudi. When I lived in Saudi Arabia back in the 80s, I lived in a 10 x 10 room with a 5 x 10 shared bathroom. There you go. To hell with the kitchen and laundry dude, eat in the mess tent (Filipino cooks, preferably) and get the Sri Lankan houseboy to do your laundry. 30, maybe 40 riyals, tops. Everybody happy.
Huh. Usually you have to work at a place a few years before you get the shaft.
Aren’t there numerous apartments in and around Tokyo of comparable size?